A different day
Subtitle: African American struggles for justice in rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
By: Greta de Jong.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Rural African Americans -- Civil rights -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.; African American civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.; Rural African Americans -- Louisiana -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Rural population -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century.; Louisiana -- Race relations.; Louisiana -- Rural conditions.; Louisiana -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 And Did Not Pay Them a Cent: Reconstruction and the; title: Roots of the Twentieth-Century Freedom Struggle 10; title: 2 Our Plight Here Is Bad: The Limits of Protest in a New; title: South Plantation Economy 19; title: 3 They Will Not Fight in the Open: Strategies of Resistance in; title: the Jim Crow Era 41; title: 4 We Feel You All Aut to Help Us: Struggles for Citizenship,; title: 1914-1929 64; title: 5 With the Aid of God and the FSA: The Louisiana Farmers'; title: Union and the Freedom Struggle in the New Deal Era 85; title: 6 I Am an American Born Negro: Black Empowerment and; title: White Responses during World War II 116; title: 7 The Social Order Have Changed: The Emergence of the Civil; title: Rights Movement, 1945-1960 144; title: 8 To Provide Leadership and an Example: The Congress of; title: Racial Equality and Local People in the 1960s 175.